NaNoWriMo 2012

**tmso** · October 30th, 2012, 02:12 PM

Who's game?

**Wulfen** · October 30th, 2012, 02:24 PM

I'm in, seriously in, for the first time in six years!

**RedMage** · October 30th, 2012, 02:46 PM

The real NaNoWriMo, national even? No, I'm not in.

What we did here at SFFWorld for a while? I'm still debating.

**tmso** · October 30th, 2012, 02:51 PM

A good friend of mine has suckered me into a mano a mano game of NaNoWriMo. I'd thought I would see who else might come along the torture ride.

Wulfen - you actually sound like you are looking forward to it. You go!

RedMage - can you do one sentence a day?

**hippokrene** · October 30th, 2012, 03:20 PM

Yes, I am participating in National November Writing Month. I've even gotten my first mini-challenge from my friends. 7,500 by Sunday and I get to go to an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet.

**Wulfen** · October 30th, 2012, 04:18 PM

I'm basically pausing my work on the 'real' novel for the next month, and starting a new project for this. Afterwards, I'm hoping the time away from my current project will help to refine it.

I've never written at this kind of pace, so this should prove interesting.

**RedMage** · October 30th, 2012, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by tmso

A good friend of mine has suckered me into a mano a mano game of NaNoWriMo. I'd thought I would see who else might come along the torture ride.

.....

RedMage - can you do one sentence a day?

I think you know the answer is Yes. Lol. I'm just having story trouble. Nothing like over the summer and last spring, but I've got to figure out what's going on. That's what I'm debating right now. But, no, I don't think I will do the official. I have nothing new that is ready to be written right now so I will have to skip it.

Good luck to all you NaNo-ers!

**Noumenon** · October 30th, 2012, 06:52 PM

I intend to use the deadline to try and finish my work in progress. That means rather less than 50k, more like 35, and in a time scale not too much less than that which produced the previous 35. If I can do that I'll be delighted; if not, at least putting me close enough to finish it this year will do.

**tmso** · October 30th, 2012, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by hippokrene

I've even gotten my first mini-challenge from my friends. 7,500 by Sunday and I get to go to an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet.

(humble bow)

Write on, hippo, write on.

**tmso** · October 30th, 2012, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by Noumenon

I intend to use the deadline to try and finish my work in progress. That means rather less than 50k, more like 35, and in a time scale not too much less than that which produced the previous 35. If I can do that I'll be delighted; if not, at least putting me close enough to finish it this year will do.

That's what we've done in the past here on the site. It works a bit clunkier than the real NaNoWriMo site (here's the link for anyone who doesn't know what we are talking about - FYI - the site is overwhelmed at the moment), but we just use the collective NaNo-energy to finish our own projects unofficially.

I'm game to do that again, but without the graphs. We can just report in and I'll keep track (loosely).

Here's my goal: 20,000 words by the end of November 30th (or 666 words a day).

Since the smilies are not really working yet...here's my evil grin:

**Santaria** · October 30th, 2012, 10:18 PM

I wish I had heard of NaNoWriMo before kids!

**Igor** · October 31st, 2012, 02:02 AM

I'm too busy with my third book in the series.

But recently, I've been averaging two chapters on a good a day - or roughly 10,000 words, a day!
With work and whatnot, it comes down to about 15,000-20,000 a week

I actually timed myself, the prose comes off at 60 words/min ...

Igor